בַּרְזֶלbarzel

iron

Pronunciation: bar-zel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1270

Meanings

1. iron, literal

d. cutting instrument of iron (Deuteronomy 3:11; Joshua 17:16; Joshua 17:18)

2. tool, weapon (Deuteronomy 27:5; Joshua 8:31; Proverbs 27:17)

3. iron, in figure (Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 4:20; 1 Kings 8:51)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 76 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:22 Lamech’s other wife, Zillah, gave birth to a son named Tubal-cain. He became an expert in forging tools of bronze and iron. Tubal-cain had a sister named Naamah.
  • Leviticus 26:19 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.
  • Numbers 31:22 Anything made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—
  • Numbers 35:16 “But if someone strikes and kills another person with a piece of iron, it is murder, and the murderer must be executed.
  • Deuteronomy 3:11 (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
  • Deuteronomy 4:20 Remember that the Lord rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).